Torchwood: Risk Assessment: Torchwood Series, Book 27
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The Torchwood Assessor is awoken in the latest novel in the bestselling Torchwood range
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Agnes Haversham is awake, and Jack is worried (and not a little afraid). The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her sleep in only the worst of times - it's happened just four times in the last 100 years. Can the situation really be so bad? Someone, somewhere, is fighting a war, and they're losing badly. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. With thousands of alien bodies floating in the Bristol Channel, it's down to Torchwood to round them all up before a lethal plague breaks out. And now they'll have to do it by the book - the 1901 edition!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Yet another good book in the Torchwood series of books. In some repects this is extra good value for your money, as in essence, you get two stories for the price of one. Whilst the characters are the same throughout, there is another sub plot involving one Agnes Haversham, who is the risk assessor from the title. As usual, the odds stack up against Jack Harkness and the team to which there does not appear to be a way out. Of course the Torchwood team do triumph as always. Good descriptive text adds to the atmosphere of the story.
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It seems to me that this book didn't quite know what to make of itself - a serious sci-fi novel, an psycho-analysis of Torchwood history, a Jules Verne adventure, or a vaudeville comic turn. And that, unfortunately, was the impression I was left with when I finished it. Don't get me wrong - it's good in parts; I'm just not sure it hangs together as a story in one book.
The character of Agnes Havisham is an interesting one; and brings some of Torchwood's long-standing history to a current reality. Jack, Ianto and Gwen are all well characterised; just parts of the story seem so far-fetched, or even slightly silly, as to spoil the overall effect. Too many good ideas from the author that he wanted to use in one book, I suspect.
Definitely a must-read for a Torchwood fan; but just good, not great. An intriguing, oddball kind of story. A pity - hopefully we see more of the interaction between Jack and Miss Havisham in future stories.
The character of Agnes Havisham is an interesting one; and brings some of Torchwood's long-standing history to a current reality. Jack, Ianto and Gwen are all well characterised; just parts of the story seem so far-fetched, or even slightly silly, as to spoil the overall effect. Too many good ideas from the author that he wanted to use in one book, I suspect.
Definitely a must-read for a Torchwood fan; but just good, not great. An intriguing, oddball kind of story. A pity - hopefully we see more of the interaction between Jack and Miss Havisham in future stories.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A bit of an oddity this - the remaining Torchwood trio of Gwen, Jack, and Ianto, generally take a back seat to the bonkers and enigmatic Agnes Havisham, a Torchwood risk-assessor who comes out of hibernation every few years in order to micro manage the exisiting team. As a previous reviewer has mentioned, writer James Goss captures the key characters' mannerisms and personalities perfectly; Havisham herself doesn't really justify her characters' existence, but there is enough going on to keep the reader's attention, and the globular 'Vam' is a wonderfully obnoxious alien menace.
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if you are not a big gwen fan you will want to avoid this book. while i am not expecting great literature i do hope for something that doesn't read like bad fan fic. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Ellen Daugherty
A good Torchwood novel, but doesn't quite fit
This is a strange Torchwood novel which I feel ambiguous about. It's quite entertaining, with a rapidly moving plot and lots of inescapable threat. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by J. R. Johnson-Rollings
funny and exciting book
this is a very typical torchwood book- combing the past and the future- some great characters and some very funny scenes excellent alll round
Published on 7 Jan 2010 by C. F. Legge
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